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If you still see this message after a few seconds then you need to install Adobe Flash PlayerTeam Members
The Rev. Rob Cavanna
Norma Jackson
The Rev. Roger Phillips
Team Administrator:
Rosemary Phillips
Team Mentor: The Rev. Gretchen Pickeral
The Rev. Canon Sandi Holmberg, Canon Missioner, The Episcopal Church in Minnesota
9th Bishop of The Episcopal Church in Minnesota: The Right Rev. Brian N. Prior
Welcome to Central MN Churches
The Spirit of the Heartland is a cluster of two Episcopal churches in Central Minnesota where all baptized members minister together in Total Ministry. The Episcopal Church is part of a worldwide/global church of 80 million members in over 160 countries!
Congregation members are raised up, trained, commissioned, licensed and/or ordained and serve together in the ministerial leadership roles traditionally filled by a seminary-trained priest. Parish ministers continue to serve in Lay Ministry roles. All team members serve in all Spirit of the Heartland congregations. To get detailed information about the three churches - Good Samaritan Episcopal Church in Sauk Centre and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Paynesville, go to www.centralmnchurches.com.
How to Belong to the Christian faith within the fellowship of the Episcopal Church.
The need to belong to something significant is at the heart of all of us. We can be part of a bigger reality, part of something that really matters.
To join the Episcopal Church is to become a Christian accepting the love and forgiveness offered us in Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Our initiation is called baptism, where one is welcomed through water and the Holy Spirit within the context of a worship service.
If you have never been baptized or if you have been baptized in another denomination, please speak to one of the priests to discuss joining one of the Spirit of the Heartland churches. Our churches are unique in that you aren't one out of hundreds - you encounter real people in smaller cell groups with real relationships and all looking for a REAL relationship with Jesus Christ! Call us toll free at (888)447-7032 and ask for Father Rob Cavanna. You're always welcome in any of our two churches any Sunday. Check our website - www.centralmnchurches.com for worship times!
"What we have seen and heard we are telling you so that you too may be in union with us, as we are in union with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ. We are writing this to you to make our own joy complete."
1st John 1: 3-4
Harriette Burkhalter, Evangelism Minister